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Looks like Turtleboy isn’t the only one having problems with social media censorship….

Masslive: Bishop Talbert Swan, the president of the Springfield chapter of the NAACP and the head of Spring of Hope Church of God in Christ on Alden Street, has been permanently banned from Twitter. Swan, who had a verified account with about 77,000 followers, said he was not notified by Twitter of the ban, but by followers sending him screenshots reading “this account has been suspended,” when they clicked on his handle @TalbertSwan.

After several days of trying to reach Twitter administrators, he was sent an email saying the account was suspended for “hateful conduct.”

Although Twitter did not specify what Tweet got him banned, Swan believes it was a Tweet he sent out in May in response to someone asking him to follow Candace Owens, a black conservative and critic of the Black Lives Matter movement.

“I responded by writing ‘No thanks, I’m on the no coon diet’,” he said.

Swan explained that while the term is pejorative and racist towards black people, it does not have the same meaning when used by black people.

“You can have a black person use the same term and it has a different connotation. It’s the never ending argument about using the n word and so on. When you look at the word coon, when black folks use the term, it’s synonymous with calling someone a traitor or a sell out who works against the best interest of their people,” he said.

Swan said does not understand how Twitter banned him permanently for the Tweet while users like Alex Jones, a radio host and conspiracy theorist, are allowed to keep their accounts.

“How is that worth a permanent suspension to use the word coon, when they slapped Alex Jones on the wrist for inciting violence and conspiracy theories and saying Sandy Hook was a farce,” he said. “Facebook, Instagram and Spotify thought his content was so vile they banned him from their sites, but Twitter gave him a week’s suspension and allowed him to go back,” he said.

Swan also questioned why white people who use racist terms on the platform are allowed to keep their accounts active.

“When you look at what I said in comparison to the president calling a black woman a dog or Rosanne Barr comparing a black woman to a gorilla and they are still on the site, you have to wonder if they are being even handed in terms of how they are enforcing terms of service,” he said referring to Donald Trump’s tweet about Omarosa Manigault-Newman and Barr’s Tweet about Valerie Jarrett.

“They can say racist and pejorative things about black people and are allowed to keep their account, but I’m permanently banned from the site. It’s completely ridiculous,” he said.

What makes the banning more confusing to Swan is that he was reprimanded for the Tweet back in June.

“My account was suspended by Twitter for 12 hours in June for this Tweet, so why am I being punished again for the same Tweet?” he asked.

A representative from Twitter said the company does not comment on individual account suspensions “for privacy and security reasons.” He did confirm that once an account has been permanently banned the user can not create another account under the same name. In the email, he also linked a page where suspended users can appeal Twitter’s decision. Swan said he attempted to appeal the decision, but he is required to login to the suspended account to do so.

“I have been locked out of the account and am not allowed to reset the password so there is no way to appeal the decision and no one from Twitter will speak with me about this other than to send me an email,” he said.

Swan said he had a very active Twitter account.

“I had Tweets that garnered a high level of interest, literally getting tens of thousands and occasionally hundreds of thousands of likes and retweets. Many of my Tweets have been quoted in various news outlets from the Huffington Post to NBC,” he said. ” To be essentially de-platformed for using the word coon is mind boggling to me.”

A search of Talbert Swan on Twitter brings ups many Tweets by people outraged by Twitter’s decision. There are also Tweets from people who claimed to have reported Swan for the Owens Tweet.

“I was very vocal about Trump and the alternative right did not like (perhaps) that’s why I was banned,” he said.

Be careful what you wish for liberals. Censorship isn’t so fun when it happens to your people is it?

Here’s how I feel about this:

Bishop Talbert Swan is an asshole and I disagree with and even despise a lot of the things he says

He should still be able to say these things without being censored

That’s because Turtleboy is consistent and not political. We believe in one thing and one thing alone – pure, unadulterated FREE SPEECH.

The irony here is that the same idiots whining about him being banned are the ones who were cheering when we got banned. But because we are smarter, wiser, and much more attractive than our opponents, we were able to see the slippery slope that these tech companies have begun to go down with their obsession with banning controversial or “hate speech.”

Let’s get some things straight. Bishop Talbert Swan is not a real Bishop. Just look at this slugrake:

If you put your bling on and get your chinstrap touched up before Sunday service, you’re not a real pastor. People like him and Sarai Rivera are fake pastors. They’re just social justice warriors who have figured out a way to avoid paying taxes. Nothing about the shit this guy tweets is Christian:

Pretty sure Jesus never told 53% of white women that “you disgust me” because of who they voted for. He also didn’t call black women coons because they had the audacity to think independently. And yes, it’s absolutely racist to call someone a coon, and the fact that you’re black doesn’t give you magical powers to not be racist. Obviously.

But guess what? You should be allowed to be racist. Because overt racism is free speech. Racists should be encouraged to identify themselves by writing racist things. Then the rest of us can use our free speech rights to destroy their ignorant thought processes and/or mock them. The only way to fight free speech is with more free speech.

It’s just such a simple concept – if you see something you don’t like on social media, then block that person. If you report them because you don’t want to look at it you are a bitch. If you’re doing it for revenge, that’s OK, because you’re just playing the game by the rules they created. But in general Twitter and Facebook should stop ruining their platforms by getting rid of controversial and racist people like the fake Bishop from Springfield.

If you see something you don’t like on social media and your immediate reaction is to whine to the teacher (Twitter or Facebook) about your hurt feelings, then I hope you get eaten by a shark. You’re a disgrace and you’d be much better off living in North Korea where assholes like you are encouraged to report things people say to the state.

I can answer this question though:

“My account was suspended by Twitter for 12 hours in June for this Tweet, so why am I being punished again for the same Tweet?” he asked.

Simple – because you got caught up in the same purge we did. If you’ve ever had an account suspended in the past then you automatically became permanently suspended. Because Twitter and Facebook have turned into safe spaces for pussies.

You can’t be a conservative and whine about conservatives being censored if you actively try to censor left wingers. It makes you a hypocrite.

At the same time this was too funny….

Twitter has a long habit of banning and suspending people of color while letting white folks get away with explicitly hateful rhetoric. Eventually it’s going to be the downfall of the platform. https://t.co/FLIUGvMu5K

Because .@jack and .@TwitterSupport will side with white supremacists and racists over POC all day, everyday. It’s been obvious for quite some time. Arbitrary suspending of POC for speaking out truth but not being outright offensive is common. “Rules” for POC differ from WP.

Oh yea, people of color are the ones being victimized here. White people never get banned from social media platforms.

Ever.

Look, I don’t like you Bishop Swan. I hate the things that you saw. But guess what? I respect the fact that you don’t give a fuck. I respect the fact that you say what’s on your mind and apologize for nothing.

And on that note Uncle Turtleboy has expressed that he would like to formally invite you onto the podcast to discuss your banning. No, this is not a trap. We genuinely like to have people on who see the world from a different perspective. Because it’s pretty rare that people on the radical left are even willing to speak to people they disagree with, and when we find one it’s a breath of fresh air. Like activist Jamarhl Crawford from Boston:

Here’s the thing though – we need more people getting banned from Twitter in order to stop people from getting banned on Twitter. Every time someone big like this gets the boot it draws more awareness and attention towards the problem. It turns more people against the platform. At first we were all alone and they said nothing. Then they came for Alex Jones and they said nothing. Then they came for the fake Bishop, and they said nothing. They’re going to go after someone slightly less offensive, then someone slightly less offensive after that. Eventually it will become problematic enough that they say no more censorship. Twitter and Facebook should be pussy free zones.

The bottom line is that if you’re genuinely happy to see people you hate getting banned from social media, then you don’t really believe in free speech.

The development of black calling other blacks coons has been one of the greatest phenomenon I’ve seen in my adult life. First saw it on CNN when some black commentator refereed to Dr. Ben Carson as a coon. Priceless.

The heuristics are strong with SJW Hunter, who is actually an SJW himself (because ‘hunters’ who hunt people – warriors – are themselves warriors.)

The heuristic error is that ‘blacks’ and ‘liberals’ are interchangeable, that ‘liberal’ is about race. In truth, the ‘liberals’ of Sudbury are as racist as any southern cracker; they’re just more polite, educated, and infinitely more effective about keeping their town segregated.

blacks and liberals are political bedfellows the way southern evangelicals and upper midwest wmv’s are.

in psycholinguistic terms, ‘liberal’ is a movement toward full suffrage, with a saccharine frosting of utopian inclusion gumming up the idea. reduction (if you’re a socialist, elimination) of inequality is a prominent objective. ‘conservative’ used to mean something equally useful, but at the moment, it mainly means anti-anti-conservative. or…. something. my liberal friends think i’m conservative, my conservative friends think otherwise. I’m good with that.

Interesting because preachers were the people used by the leftylibglobalistsocialistcommunistpigs to ensure they got their congregations to vote Democrat when they got the vote! Why do ya think they always were very wealthy even in the poorest areas? They were and still are paid very well to keep their people on the plantation